Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02

Ihein lot tne lecture, and said he was
going back to Utah. He must have
kept his word, for he has never been
heard from since, in this neck Of the
woods Below viii be found Brother
Watkins ehusions, as received by me,
from beginning to end
l thogsht when got married. happy man
My wife has Joined the Mormons and we
never can agree.
She's pinned her faith to Joseph Smith and
brigham Young divine,
Away " nt the Mormons, and left me here
behind.
Ihey viii preach around the neigiiborhood;
and eat our meat and bread
They will baptize the women, and Law hands
on their heads
They will deny our blessed Savior, and the
celestrial home,
And steal away the women. and laava ne
They win travel through the country preach
ing on the way;
Deceiving OF the people, and leading tbam
astray.
The MormoDs eat the butter and, their fol
lowers drink the whey;
nope That band in the Greenhill land will
N--N~ @ANAaAAChS d0d
Old maids are distressing, very well know.
Ihey have been the cause OF my sad over.
They have cussed me and abused me, they
-, nave given me the lie;
Ihey nave Kept my poor heart almost ready
They We imposed on good nature, and led me
Thai I've scarcely got money 10 pay what |
But now I've got weary, impatient to wait
determined TO move them before its TO late:
Then t.ast to the Mofmons, and then will
quit.
Ihe old maids and the Mormons are now in
They think am happy because can sing.
They will hang down their heads and look
very sad;
And some oi them looks at me; as though
they were mad
But ah they needn't look at me with a -rown
and snarl
For think that it suits them the best in the
world.
There's string Of fool women all straight in
row.
The Mormons can find them wherever they
go.
They will preach their false doctrine SO pure
and so fine.
Thev viii gull them fool women and leave
But we viii put up them Mormons, before il
is day,
We will give them lecture and Dive them
away.
Wen take ~ John Linton, and his friend
Elder lean,
And make them acquainted with forest and
green.
We will take out them Mormons, so rosy and
red,
We viii give them shearing and feather
their heads.
1.-THE Mermons don't like it, the l. they
SO to wind up their buslnea,, and all get
away.
If the" Brick Pond Companyt, ee4s tha,n In
tow,
They will hang up them Mormons, ali
straight ia row.
w. A. WATKINS. the merry old coon
He thinks that the Mormons will rattle out
soon.
The Mormons carried a great MANY
female converts from the Shoal Greek
neighborhooda and some OF the adjacent
counties to Utah, but Brother Wat.
klns and hl- band persuaded them that
they didn't need any women from the
Indian Camp country. ,fa
All the game has not been killed
down here yet; two deers were seen and
shot at within mile of our camp las,
week, and we have seen several turkeys
on our work. But the most abundan,
and by far the gamest game we have
are ticks. They are indefatigable tray
elers, and awfully tame t'
We are frequently enticed by sto.
ries ofthe doing OF rattlesnakes, which
are said to be as thick as leaves, almost
We saw stone in Florence the ovhef
day which contained partial mold OF d
mammoth rattler. At the wides,
part, the mold was four inches across,
tapering down to the tale. Twelve
rattles, were plainly counted. This Gu.
riosity was found on Wolf Creek and
is now the property OF Mr.. Calvin Car.
son, OF Florence. s
The weather has been extremely
cold for this season, down here. We
have been refreshed with several white
frosts, sleet and snow storm. It il
feared the fruit crop will be badly dam.
aged. Peaches and plums would have
been very abundant, had it not been SC
cold.
We will move the remains OF our
camp Thursday to our new division
West Point, Tenn, which place will
be our post Office hereafter.
PAUL ]. WYATT.
Excitement in Texas.